A Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web Authored by Joseph Smarr, Marc Canter, Robert Scoble, and Michael Arrington has just been announced. Read it here.
It is an evolution of ongoing discussions that have been happening around the web for some time now and it's a welcome encapsulation.
I would agree with some of the commenters, however, that the scope needs to be a little broader.
I proposed something similar to the Media 2.0 Workgroup back on March 13 2007. Here is the email.
Whatever shape or form the rights take, however, I'd like to re-dedicate ourselves (Faraday Media and its products) to enabling user control of their personal information.
We are, of course doing this with APML (Attention Profiling Markup Language) and Engagd.com - the first open-standards based Attention Platform.
It is an evolution of ongoing discussions that have been happening around the web for some time now and it's a welcome encapsulation.
I would agree with some of the commenters, however, that the scope needs to be a little broader.
I proposed something similar to the Media 2.0 Workgroup back on March 13 2007. Here is the email.
To: media2@faradaymedia.com
Date: Mar 13, 2007 2:31 PM
Subject: A project for the Media 2.0 Workgroup. Please send your thoughts
I'd like to propose a project for us all... something that will benefit the community and get a good discussion going. I look forward to your feedback!This idea has come about due to a number of contributing factors. Many of you have expressed a desire to launch a project to focus our energy on something practical and useful to the community and through a series of discussions with Marianne, Jeremiah, Daniela and Ben here is my take on a great project we can take on together.Media 2.0 Best PracticesGoalTo give emerging media platforms and participants an evolving set of 'Best Practices' to help encourage (or at least help define) open, democratic and transparent interaction. Further, to help participants who wish to engage with those platforms to know, at a glance, which aspects of the best practices they can reasonably expect to be applied to their experience there.What's it look like?I think that this could take the form of a Wiki and a Creative Commons style opt in process whereby we collectively define a set of 'pillars' and social media platforms can ascribe to the pillars they choose.I think that the workgroup should be responsible for writing the initial version of this Wiki and then moderating it once it becomes public.Some topics off the top of my head:1. Ethicsa. Disclosure (sidebar vs inside the content)2. Participation:a. Allow commentsb. Moderationc. Allow Trackbacks3. Syndicationa. Allow RSSb. Full feedsc. Creative Commons4. Marketinga. Spam Vs. Contributionb. Pinko Marketing5. Privacy6. Ownershipa. Export of Participant Created content and metadata via open standards7. Revenuea. Revenue share with participants8. DRMCan you think of any more?
We can then provide a Badge that site operators can add to their site (much like the CC badge) that indicates their level of (optional) commitment to each pillar.I think we are collectively uniquely placed to do such a thing.What is everyone's thoughts?Cheers,Chris
Whatever shape or form the rights take, however, I'd like to re-dedicate ourselves (Faraday Media and its products) to enabling user control of their personal information.
We are, of course doing this with APML (Attention Profiling Markup Language) and Engagd.com - the first open-standards based Attention Platform.